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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Comfort Easy Express Friend Occasion Ourself
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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Application Conquer Impossible Mean Resolution Themselves Thing
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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Action Blame Commendation Great Hear Part See Unlucky

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