Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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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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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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