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• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- 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...
• True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, not all that could be.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- 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...
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- 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
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...