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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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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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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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