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• No man is a hero to his valet. -- Anne-Marie Bigot de Cornuel
• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -- Francious de la Rochefoucauld
• The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• Amor, ch'al cor gentil ratto s'apprende, prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta
  e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona, mi prese del costui piacer si` forte, che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona....
• Decouple - De man and him missus.
• Fry: "Do you have anything else for him?" Contess de la Roca
  Lovely, isn't it?" Bender: "Yeah, but only 93% as lovely as you....
• The heart has its prisons that intelligence cannot unlock. -- Marcel Jouhandeau, "De la grandeu
• The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 102...