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• There can be no regulation in the Minds nor in the Hearts of Women, unless their temperament is in unison with it.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, not all that could be.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom satisfied with others.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665...