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• We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine. Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. -- Francois Duc de 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...
• Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
  -- 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 never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld