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• 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...
• We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Perfect valor is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.
  -- 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...
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- 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...
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld