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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.
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Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
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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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Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Trust not him with your secrets, who, when left alone in the room, turns over your papers.
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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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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
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Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
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