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• We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others.
  -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...
• The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 259...
• We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so.
• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...