True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quote
“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
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