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• Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...
• Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...
• There can be no regulation in the Minds nor in the Hearts of Women, unless their temperament is in unison with it.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy
  we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- 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...