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La Rochefoucauld

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#  ·  ***- Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

La Rochefoucauld, in Vice and Virtue

#  ·  ---- Unrated  ·  submitted 1997

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

#  ·  **** Very Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 1997

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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