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    “The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Self-love is the love of a man’s own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty—while virtue gets all the credit.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)