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The law has no power over heroes.
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.