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• True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 76...
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• It seems that nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds, talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
  The passions alone have the privilege of bringing them to light, and of giving us sometimes views more certain and more perfect than art could possible produce....
• It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. -- La Rochefoucauld
• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -- Aristotle, Rhetoric
• There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune
  it is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great thing...
• La Rochefoucauld's Law It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.