Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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