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• Hay personas tan ciegas y ensimismadas en todos los asuntos que siempre creen que, deseen lo que deseen o piensen lo que piensen, pueden imponer su voluntad a los demás. Sea cual sea la mala razón que utilicen para persuadir a los demás, estas personas egocéntricas están tan atrapadas en el proceso que les parece que lo único que tienen que hacer es expresar sus deseos con un tono de voz elevado y autoritario para convencer a todo el mundo.

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  Creer, Pensar, Uno M ismo

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• In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.

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  Diversity, Doubt, Mind

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• Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

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  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

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  Honestidad, Mentir, Creer

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• Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

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  Learning, Desire, Anxious

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• A veces alabamos lo que fue para culpar a lo que es, y estimamos lo que ya no es para despreciar lo que es.

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  Orden, Camino, Culpa

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• Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

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  Strong, Mean, Learning

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• It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

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  Doe, Goes On, Useless

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• Cuando una persona obstinada empieza a cuestionar algo, su mente cierra el paso a todo lo que podría aclarar el asunto. La discusión le irrita, por justa que sea, y parece que tiene miedo de descubrir la verdad.

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  Truth, Challenges, Mind

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• We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

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  Men, Thinking, Half

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• It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist.

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  Love, Doe, Characteristics

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• Las relaciones sociales, incluso la amistad entre la mayoría de la gente, no es más que un acuerdo de negocios que dura sólo el tiempo que hay necesidad.

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  Business, Long, People

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• To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

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  Stupid, Weakness, Satisfied

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• It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

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  Failure, Character, Common

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• We learn as much by others' failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection.

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  Teaching, Perfection, Example

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• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

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  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• El que usa artimañas debería al menos hacer uso de su juicio para aprender que difícilmente puede ocultar una conducta traicionera durante mucho tiempo entre hombres inteligentes que están decididos a descubrirlo, aunque puedan fingir estar engañados para disimular su conocimiento de su engaño.

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  Clever, Learning, Men

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• We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

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  People, Envy, Desire

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• There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.

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  Learning, Light, People

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• Hay una cierta manera de ensimismarse al hablar que siempre hace desagradable al orador. Porque es una locura tan grande escucharnos sólo a nosotros mismos mientras mantenemos una conversación con los demás como hablar con nosotros mismos cuando estamos solos.

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  Self, Listening, Carrying On

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• The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good man by their similarity of morals than the son is to his father by their similarity of face.

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  Padre, Hijo, Hombres

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• We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.

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  People, Soul, Quality

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• La crítica debe despertar nuestra atención, no inflamar nuestra ira. Debemos escuchar, y no huir, de quienes nos contradicen. La verdad debe ser nuestra causa, no importa de qué manera nos llegue.

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  Listening, Criticism, Attention

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• There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly.

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  People, Quality, Negative

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• Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.

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  Passion, Listening, Needs

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