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Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.
We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.
Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.