Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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