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Capable Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
- Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
- Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how…
- True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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