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habit
Habit is everything, even in love.
men opposites risk
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
hurt men fool
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
character people want
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
simple men use
Great men, like nature, use simple language.
variables opinion
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
self justice vices
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
believe natural proof
As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
affection relation
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
men sometimes great-men
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
men profound office
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
courage guides
Nothing but courage can guide life.
men knowing
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
errors despair
Despair is the greatest of our errors.