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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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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

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Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.