There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Pride more often than ignorance makes us refuse to accept new ideas finding the first places taken in the intellectual parade, we refuse to take the last.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
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