Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power.
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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