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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
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Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.
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Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
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The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he.
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Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.
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Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.
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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
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He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
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Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
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