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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 pardon in the degree that we love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 330...
• The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 78...
• There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 71...
• True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 76...
• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good office
  it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something....
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Lovers are never tired of each other, though they always speak of themselves.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 312...