Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind

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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves

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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

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It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end

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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less

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It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division

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In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it

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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest; for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter

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If we look into communities and divisions of men, we observe that the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, guides the conversation, and gives measure to society

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