Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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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."