Quote #7
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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- L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.
- The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
- When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
- Those who fear men like laws.
- Emotion has taught mankind to reason.