Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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