There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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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 achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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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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