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• People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
  -- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald...
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The love of Justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering Injustice.
  -- Francois, Duc de la Rouchefoucauld...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaissance.
  [Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge]. -- Comte de Bussy-Rabuti...
• Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.
  -- 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...