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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."
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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."
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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
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"The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter."
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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."
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"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
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"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them."
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"Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy"
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"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."
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"We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves"
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