The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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