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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.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and fans a bonfire.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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