The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Hazlitt, William
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
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I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
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