In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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