When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThose who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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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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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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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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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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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