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• To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
  -- Francios de La Rochefoucauld...
• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 226...
• Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. -- La Rochefoucauld
• Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Gallantry consists in saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner. -- La Rochefoucauld
• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -- Francious de la Rochefoucauld
• Gravity is a mystery of the body, invented to conceal the defects of the mind. -- La Rochefoucauld
• It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself. -- La Rochefoucauld