The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper owing to the c

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.