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Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also