Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDNothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced 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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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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