"Give help rather than advice."

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"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

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"Those who can bear all can dare all."

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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

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"We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter."

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"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

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"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

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"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

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"The idle always have a mind to do something."

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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."

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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

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"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

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"Obscurity is the realm of error."

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"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources."

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"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

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"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them."

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"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

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"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."

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"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."

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"To possess taste, one must have some soul."

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"All grand thoughts come from the heart."

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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

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"Great thoughts always come from the heart."

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"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."

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"Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest."

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"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."

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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

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