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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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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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