Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
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