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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

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Consult duty not events.

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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

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Great men always pay deference to greater.

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