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François de La Rochefoucauld

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01Undated

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

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02Undated

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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03Undated

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

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04Undated

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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05Undated

We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation

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06Undated

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

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07Undated

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

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08Undated

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

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09Undated

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

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10Undated

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

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11Undated

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

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12Undated

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

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13Undated

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

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14Undated

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

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15Undated

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

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16Undated

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

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17Undated

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

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18Undated

We forgive so long as we love.

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19Undated

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

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20Undated

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

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21Undated

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

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22Undated

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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23Undated

It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.

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24Undated

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

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