"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"I teach that all men are mad."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."

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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."

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