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Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.
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Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
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Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.
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Only it seems to me a grievous error in a ruler to quarrel with all his subjects at once.