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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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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Great Haste Ingratitude Obligation
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
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
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
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
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Certain Doubt Entirely Jealous Madness Soon Upon
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No

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