Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDConceit causes more conversation than wit.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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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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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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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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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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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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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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