Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
Luc de Clapiers
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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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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Those who fear men love the laws.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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