"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
-Luc de Clapiers
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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.“
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"Patience is the art of hoping."
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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."
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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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