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• Why is it that our memory is good enough 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?
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
  -- 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...
• In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
  Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 99, later suppressed...
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 180...
• We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with with us.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 347...
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The passions often engender their contraries. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld