François de La Rochefoucauld

1. “Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
   -François de La Rochefoucauld

1. “Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.”
   -François de La Rochefoucauld

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