Related:

• True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, not all that could be.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- 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...
• 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...
• Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...