There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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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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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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