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CytatyLa RochefoucauldA true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines. Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another. |
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