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.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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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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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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