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Virtues Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
- If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
- To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
- Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
- The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
- Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
- 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…
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