Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One gets into situations in life from which it is necessary to be a little mad to extricate oneself successfully.
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.
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Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done, as fear of its consequences to us.
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