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• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
• On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.
  (One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.) -- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- Francois Duc de 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...
• Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...