Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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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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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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