Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
true talk
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