Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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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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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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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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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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No 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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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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