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“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld · Men

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

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Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

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