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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
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Talk
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We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.
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Deception
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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
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We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations.
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The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.
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Trust
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Humility is often only a feigned submission, of which we make use to render others submissive. It is an artifice of pride which abases in order to exalt itself.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Humility
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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
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Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.
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The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
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It is not sufficient to have great qualities; we must be able to make proper use of them.
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Grace is to the body what clear thinking is to the mind.
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There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
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There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
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What seems to be generously is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
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Impossible
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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However brilliant an action may be, it ought not to pass for great when it is not the result of a great design.
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Action
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You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.
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Deception
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We have more power than will; and it is only to exculpate ourselves that we often say that things are impracticable.
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Will
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
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Goodness
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There is more self-love than love in jealousy.
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We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
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Men give away nothing so liberally as advice.
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Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
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Goodness
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There are two sorts of constancy in love; the one comes from the constant discovery in our beloved of new grounds for love, and the other from making it a point of honor to be constant.
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Love
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High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
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Fortune
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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not wholly displeasing to us.
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Adversity
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Love
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Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement; desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valor that men hold in such high esteem.
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Bravery
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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Evil
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Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.
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Right
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In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
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Chance
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He who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.
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Absurdity
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The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those we affect to have.
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Manners
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Peace
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The only security is courage.
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Courage
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Friendship
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No accidents are so unlucky but that the wise may draw some advantage from them; nor are there any so lucky but that the foolish may turn them to their own prejudice.
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Misfortune
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice
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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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Impossible
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Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
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Reputation
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It is not enough to have great qualities; we must also have the management of them.
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Qualities
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Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
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Gratitude
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Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
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Wisdom
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A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
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Understanding
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We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged than those who have obliged us.
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Obligations
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