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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity

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