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Might not someone jeer at us in the same way, as being afraid, when we have not yet one firm friendship, that we shall without knowing it fall upon an abundance of friends?
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A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.
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There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget,--but not himself, his own character.
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In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.
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Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.