Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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