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The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
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Even the cheapest misers can be generous with advice.
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If you lie to me, keep lying; don’t hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.
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Don’t trust a man who needs an income—except if it is minimum wage.
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You may outlive your strength, never your wisdom.
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Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
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Religions and ethics have evolved from promising heaven if you do good, to promising heaven while you do good, to making you promise to do good.
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Avoid calling heroes those who had no other choice.
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There are those who will thank you for what you gave them and others who will blame you for what you did not give them.
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Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession. This has been rarer and rarer since the Middle Ages.
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I trust everyone except those who tell me they are trustworthy.
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People often need to suspend their self-promotion, and have someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership.
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Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.
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I wonder if crooks can conceive that honest people can be shrewder than they.
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In Proust there is a character, Morel, who demonizes Nissim Bernard, a Jew who lent him money, and becomes anti-Semitic just so he can escape the feeling of gratitude.
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Promising someone good luck as a reward for good deeds sounds like a bribe; perhaps the remnant of an archaic, pre-deontic pre-classical morality.
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The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.
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The nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.
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In a crowd of a hundred, fifty percent of the wealth, ninety percent of the imagination and a hundred percent of the intellectual person will reside in a single person—not necessarily the same one.
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Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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For soldiers, we use the term “mercenary”; but we absolve employees of responsibility with “everybody needs to make a living”.
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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up, irreverence towards the temporarily powerful and arrogant-down, directed at the small guy.
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Someone from your social class who becomes poor affects you more than thousands of starving ones outside of it.
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