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“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld · Men

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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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