La Rochefoucauld

Quote link.: "Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: small love: "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire."
Quote link.: "Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope life teach look: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy: "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it."
Quote link.: "Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success love: "Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope love: "Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."
Quote link.: "Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men love fear: "For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope: "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope fear: "Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope."
Quote link.: "How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself"
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend love friends: "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: person: "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"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend love friends: "If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend love friends: "If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength: "If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk love: "It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship old friend people good pain friends grow fact: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."
Quote link.: "Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "One forgives to the degree that one loves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think never: "One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "Our minds are lazier than our bodies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil past future: "Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it."
Quote link.: "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth perfect: "Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think man wise: "The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "The mind cannot long act the role of the heart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people love: "There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think: "The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others."
Quote link.: "Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: value person need love: "To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk love: "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
Quote link.: "We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy think never unhappy: "We are never so happy or unhappy as we think."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason believe friend good need friends: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope fear: "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think people good: "We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us."
Quote link.: "Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others."
Quote link.: "We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe love: "When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."

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