Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDThe happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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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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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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