Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDMediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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