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• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with others.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- 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...
• 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...