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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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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Access Become Crime Even Glorious Number Splendor
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Capable Couple Do Look Perfect Witness World
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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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Despise Vice Virtue
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient

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