Great praise is heaped on prudence yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make us sure.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a man's acts are honest and just, it is hard to know if they result from righteousness or cleverness.
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If I advance, follow me If I retreat, kill me If I die, avenge me
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
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