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• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. -- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...