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• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy
  we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Perfect valor is to do unwitnessed what we should be capable of doing before all the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...