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• The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
  (Maxim 259)...
• We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 378...
• We pardon in the degree that we love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 330...
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
• We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 25...
• Usually we praise only to be praised.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 146...
• We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 19...
• In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 471...
• In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
  Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 99, later suppressed...