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• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Il n'y a pas lieu de s'inqueter..
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Mejor morir a pie que vivir en rodillas. [Better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.
  ] -- Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) (1895-1989)...
• The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 298...
• On ne peut rassembler les Francais que sous le coup de la peur.
  On ne peut pas rassembler a froid un pays qui compte 246 specialites de fromages....
• It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. -- La Rochefoucauld
• L'extension des privileges des femmes est le principe general de tous progres sociaux.
  -- Charles Fourier, 1808...