Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

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• Luc de Clapiers:

  We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  Those who can bear all can dare all.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

• Luc de Clapiers:

  The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

• Stendhal:

  A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.