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Moderation Is Caused By The Fear Of Exciting The Envy And Contempt Which Those Merit Who Are Intoxicated With Their Good Fortune; It Is A Vain Display Of Our Strength Of Mind, And In Short The Moderation Of Men At Their Greatest Height Is Only A Desire To Appear Greater Than Their Fortune.

If We Have Not Peace Within Ourselves, It Is In Vain To Seek It From Outward Sources.

Opportunity Makes Us Known To Others, But More To Ourselves.

If We Are Incapable Of Finding Peace In Ourselves, It Is Pointless To Search Elsewhere.

The Grace Of Novelty And The Length Of Habit, Though So Very Opposite To One Another, Yet Agree In This, That They Both Alike Keepus From Discovering The Faults Of Our Friends.