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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Archive Die Greatness Live never
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
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
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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Fault Much Notice Other Own Pleasure Tak
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness

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