"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.“
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"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."
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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
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