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• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- 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
• Those who obstinately oppose the most widely held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence.
  They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats....
• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...