If we are long absent from ...

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

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Just as much as we see in others, we have in ourselves.
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.