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| We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means. | | Uncategorized | |
| We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. | | Uncategorized | |
| We only admit to minor faults to persuade ourselves that we have no major ones | | Uncategorized | |
| We only appreciate our good or evil in proportion to our self-love. | | Uncategorized | |
| We own to small faults to persuade others that we have not great ones. | | Uncategorized | |
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| We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. | | Commitment | |
| We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears | | Uncategorized | |
| We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience. | | Uncategorized | |
| We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. | | Uncategorized | |
| We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them | | Uncategorized | |
| We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired. | | Uncategorized | |
| We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity | | Fortune; Health; Violence | |
| We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them. | | Uncategorized | |
| We should often be ashamed of our very best actions, if the world only saw the motives which caused them. | | Uncategorized | |
| We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. | | Uncategorized | |
| We should only be astonished at still being able to be astonished. | | Uncategorized | |
| We sometimes complain of the levity of our friends to justify our own by anticipation. | | Uncategorized | |
| We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others. | | Uncategorized | |
| We speak little if not egged on by vanity | | Vanity | |
