Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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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.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering injustice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great praise is heaped on prudence yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make us sure.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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