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• The passions often engender their contraries. -- 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...
• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
  -- 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...
• Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
  -- 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...
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...