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“[W]hat seems to me worst about your present condition is that no one but yourself can rescue you from it.” (165)

“[T]here is sometimes more skill than courage in taking advantage for the present moment of an uncertain future, and taking advance credit for a perpetual abstinence that can be renounced at will.” (116)

"Les vertus privées sont souvent d'autant plus sublimes qu'elles n'aspirent point à l'approbation d'autrui, mais seulement au bon témoignage de soi-même ; et la conscience du juste lieu tient lieu des louanges de l'univers."