There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The highest skill is the true judgment of values.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
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