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• We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 25...
• No evil is greater than indifference toward evil.
• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good
  o far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing...
• We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
• It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.
  -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 282...
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VIII -- Act iv, Sc. 2...
• The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
  (Maxim 127) (Maxim 19) Usually we praise only to be praised. (Maxim 146)...
• Return from a short distance. No need for remorse. Great good fortune.
• We should provide in peace what we need in war. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 709