Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
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However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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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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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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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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