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• Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. -- La Rochefoucauld
• Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
  -- 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...
• In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects than by our good qualities.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to set a bad example.
  -- La Rochefoucauld, "Maxim...
• Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...