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ing difficult; but presumption makes all things to be thought easy.

32.

If there be inevitable dangers, there are many we give into by imprudence, and still more which we may avoid by a little precaution.

33.

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

34.

No other princes commonly, but those who are deserving of immortality, love to encourage the talents that give a right to it.

35.

It is not possible to impose silence on the interior voice that upbraids us with our faults. It is the voice of nature herself.

36.

Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

37.

Must one cease to be virtuous to escape being exposed to the darts of envy? What a

calamity would it be if the sun ceased shining, that weak eyes might not be offended!

38.

The older love grows the weaker it is. Friendship is stronger in becoming old.

39.

Nature cries aloud to the most powerful, as well as the most abject of men, that they are all members of the same body.

40.

If we perceive at present little genius, it is because the arts have few inventors in an age where they are so many models.

41.

The most infallible mark of ignorance is superstition.

42.

Who of us would take notice of time if it did not pass away? But great is our mishap not to think of it till the moment it flies away and escapes us.

43.

Science, when well digested, is nothing but good sense and reason.

44.

Why should we despise those who have no wit? it is not a voluntary evil in them.

45.

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation.

46.

A great soul ought to be more sensible of benefits than affronts.

47.

However great a happiness is, there is still one greater, which is that of being esteemed worthy of the happiness that is enjoyed.

48.

We ought to reckon time by our good actions, and place the rest to the account of our not having lived.

49.

Though hope often deceives us we have still the same confidence, and our life passes away in hoping.

50.

It scarce ever happens, that in falling from a high elevation, we find in ourselves so much strength to rise again, as we had weakness in falling.

51.

All nature acts for growing, and all growth for its destruction.

52.

The virtue that excites envy has, at least, the advantage of confounding, sooner or later, the envious.

53.

Modesty is always inseparable from true merit.

54.

It is one of the great effects of Providence, that every nation, however miserable it may be, fancies that happiness cannot be found elsewhere.

55.

The best way for some to console themselves for their ignorance is, to believe useless all that they do not know.

56.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

57.

Patriotism is nothing more than the sentiment of our welfare, and the dread of seeing it disturbed.

58.

Every thing, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment.

59.

Reason has an occasion for experience; but experience is useless without reason.

60.

Conscience admonishes as a friend, before punishing us as a judge.

61.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

62.

I cannot comprehend how deceit is so cried down, and, at the same time, so common.

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