“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” — Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect… — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to… — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“433.—The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae."… — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“357.—Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.” — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. — François Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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