Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. "
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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."