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• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- 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...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- 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...
• Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy
  we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld