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• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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• Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...