"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.“
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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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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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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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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