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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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