Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."

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"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. "

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."

"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."

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