Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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