There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

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• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of sel

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

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

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that dece

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to hav

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of ou

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

  No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness