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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. ↗

— Pericles

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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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