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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.
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All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.
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A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
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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.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
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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.
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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.
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