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• We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Troi: "So, what would you like?" Timothy: "Androids do not eat or drink.
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• Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves to the things we do like.
  -- Ernest Be...
• We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 49...
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• Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy
  we do not easily believe beyond what we see. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• If we had no defects ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others.
  -- 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...