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• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- 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 never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- 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 are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine. Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
• How it is that our memory is able to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
  -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...