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• If we had no defects ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose. (Maxim 48)
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• He goes on about the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
  It comes in one verse after another, and it is quite manifest to the reader that there is a certain pleasure in contemplating the wailing and gnashing of teeth, or else it would not occur so often....
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
• We are never so happy or unhappy as we imagine. Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.
  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us....
• We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and most enligthened when we are the most confused.
  -- M. S. Peck...
• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. -- Alan Wa