“ The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. ”
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“ A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. ”
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“ The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ”
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“ We are too inattentive or too much occupied with ourselves to understand each other. Whoever has seen masks at a ball dance amicably together, and hold hands without knowing each other, to part the moment after to see each other no more, nor to regret each other, can form some idea of society. ”
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“ A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. ”
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“ We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. ”
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“ Great success is commoner than great abilities. ”
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“ Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. ”
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“ We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. ”
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“ Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived. ”
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“ With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature. ”
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“ Extreme distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived. ”
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“ It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts. ”
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“ The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine. ”
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“ The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ”
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“ Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. ”
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“ The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ”
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“ We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults. ”
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“ The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ”
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“ We are too inattentive or too much occupied with ourselves to understand each other. Whoever has seen masks at a ball dance amicably together, and hold hands without knowing each other, to part the moment after to see each other no more, nor to regret each other, can form some idea of society. ”
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