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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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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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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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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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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Depend Fortune Happiest Men Mystery Temper
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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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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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish

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