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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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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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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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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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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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