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MORAL SENTENCES.
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trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.


43.

We have not strength enough to follow all our reason.


44.

A man often fancies that he guides himself when he is guided by others; and while his mind aims at cue object, his heart insensibly draws him on to another.


45.

Strength and weakness of mind are badly named—they are, in fact, nothing more than the good or bad arrangement of the organs of the body.


46.

The capriciousness of our humor is often more fantastical than that of fortune.

47.

The attachment or indifference which the philosophers had for life was nothing more than one of the tastes of their self-love, which we ought no more to dispute than the taste of the palate, or the choice of colors.