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La Rochefoucauld
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.
La Rochefoucauld
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person
La Rochefoucauld
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us.
La Rochefoucauld
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
La Rochefoucauld
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
La Rochefoucauld
If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.
La Rochefoucauld
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
La Rochefoucauld
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
La Rochefoucauld
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
La Rochefoucauld
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
La Rochefoucauld
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
La Rochefoucauld
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
La Rochefoucauld
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
La Rochefoucauld
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
La Rochefoucauld
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
La Rochefoucauld
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.
La Rochefoucauld
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
La Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.
La Rochefoucauld
All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
La Rochefoucauld
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
LaDawnna Burnett (
Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
LaDawnna Burnett,
Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
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