“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.