Few things are impossible in themselves; application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
-- La Rochefoucauld
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
-- La Rochefoucauld
The glory of great men must always be measured by the means that they have used to obtain it.
-- La Rochefoucauld
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
-- La Rochefoucauld
The love of justice in most men is no more than the fear of suffering injustice.
-- La Rochefoucauld
Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.
-- La Rochefoucauld
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