“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”
“A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.”
“Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.”
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