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• Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 79...
• In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
  Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 99, later suppressed...
• 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...
• The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 127...
• We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 25...
• We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with with us.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 347...
• There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 71...
• Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 218...
• Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 212...