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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Contribution Friendship Happiness Ignorance Knowledge Love More

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