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• We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. (Maxim 294)
• 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...
• What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
  -- Albert Pine...
• Forgive us, for we know not what we do. Not that we CARE or anything.
• Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
• don't you know that there are things, in the best of us, which no outside should dare to touch?
  Things sacred because, and only because, one can say...
• We do not envy those who have the capacity to pray, whereas we are filled with envy of the possessors of goods, of those who know wealth and fame.
  Strange that we resign ourselves to someone's salvation and not to what fugitive advantages he may enjoy....
• What other people do we always feel we could do better.
  Unfortunately we do not have the same feeling about what we ourselves do. -- E.M. Ciora...
• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali