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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

Luc de Clapiers
Thinking, Evil, Faults
Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Luc de Clapiers
Evil, Our Actions, Goodness

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers
Evil, Cures
Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Luc de Clapiers
Ambition, Men, Evil
Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.

Luc de Clapiers
Opportunity, Evil, Design
Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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