Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing 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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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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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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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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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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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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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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