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• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. -- William Ellery Channing
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 378...
• Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
  -- Earl of Sterling...
• The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
  -- Martha Washingto...
• 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...
• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
  -- Logan P. Smith...
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam.
  The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home....