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Perfect Valor Is To Do, Without A Witness, All That We Could Do Before The Whole World.

Friendship Is Only A Reciprocal Conciliation Of Interests, And An Exchange Of Good Offices; It Is A Species Of Commerce Out Of Which Self-love Always Expects To Gain Something.

In The Human Heart There Is A Ceaseless Birth Of Passions, So That The Destruction Of One Is Almost Always The Establishment Of Another.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

Tricks And Treachery Are Merely Proofs Of Lack Of Skill.