Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

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True love is like the appearance of ghosts: everyone talks about it but few have seen it.

aphorism by La Rochefoucauld from Maxims (1665)
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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

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Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

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If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

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