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• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
  (Maxim 127) (Maxim 19) Usually we praise only to be praised. (Maxim 146)...
• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect. xiv, Vol. i, p. 118...
• Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Epistle to Congreve, Line 19...
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941...
• We are interested in others when they are interested in us. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 16
• Reflect on your present blessings, of which everyone has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all people have some.
  -- Charles Dicke...
• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all othe
  it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by false appreciation of their own strength....
• In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 471...