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• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct. (Maxim 378)
• The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 259...
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
• We pardon in the degree that we love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 330...
• Usually we praise only to be praised.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 146...
• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 110...
• Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 180...
• We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with with us.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 347...