Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us."
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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."