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• The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 259...
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct. (Maxim 378)
• We pardon in the degree that we love. (Maxim 330)
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 378...
• If we're so smart and so creative, why aren't we happier than they are?
• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished
  but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are....
• We start out loving our parents and end up hating them.
  Sometimes we learn to love them again, but we never forgive them....
• We pardon in the degree that we love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 330...
• 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)...