Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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