Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The more we love the nearer we are to hate.
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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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Weakness is more opposite to virtue than is vice itself.
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Our pride rather than our virtue criticizes the faults of others We reprove our friends less to correct their faults than to show that weourselves are free of them.
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
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