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We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. - [Misfortune] We have few faults that are not more excusable in themselves than are the means which we use to conceal them. - [Deceit] We have more indolence in the mind than in the body. - [Indolence] We have more power than will; and it is often by way of excuse to ourselves that we fancy things are impossible. - [Power] We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible. - [Impossibility] We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship. - [Friendship] We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore. - [Forgiveness] We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person. - [Agree : Beauty] We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. - [Virtue] We need not be much concerned about those faults which we have the courage to own. - [Faults] We never desire ardently what we desire rationally. - [Covetousness : Desire] We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. - [Covetousness : Desire] We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others. - [Egotism] We often glory in the most criminal passion; but that of envy is so shameful that we dare not even own it. - [Envy] We often shed tears which deceive ourselves after having deceived others. - [Tears] We pardon as long as we love. - [Forgiveness] We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service. - [Gratitude] We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion. - [Prejudice] We should manage our fortune as we do our health--enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - [Fortune] We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them. - [Action] We should often have reason to be ashamed of our most brilliant actions if the world could see the motives from which they spring. - [Motive] We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire. - [Want] We speak little if not egged on by vanity. - [Talking] We take less pains to be happy than to appear so. - [Appearance] We think very few people sensible except those who are of our opinion. - [Opinion] Displaying page 12 of 16 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [12] 13 14 15 16
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