We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The highest skill is the true judgment of values.
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