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• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- 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
• 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...
• Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...