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Better pleased with other’s things
“Among human characteristics, this one is rather common: to be better pleased with other people’s things than with our own, and to love movement and change.” III.9 “Of vanity” (p. 878)
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An open way of speaking
“An open way of speaking opens up another man’s speech and draws it out, as do wine and love” III.1 “Of the useful and the honorable” (p. 730)
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Honor in weeping for husbands
“If there is some honor in weeping for husbands, it belongs only to those who have smiled upon theirs; let those who have wept in his life smile in his death, outwardly as well as inwardly.” II.35 “Of three good women” (p. 683)
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To be loved
“Even if I could make myself feared, I would much rather make myself loved.” II.8 (345)