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• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 294...
• The passions are the only orators that always persuade. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- 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
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- 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...