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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
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Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.
Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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![No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.](/fotos/1c/1c23e2956f50da7f917d1e5cd03247bb.webp)
There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.
