Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThere are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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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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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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