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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Before Could Perfect Valid Whole Witness
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Atter Community Evil Find Hard Philosophy Vanquish
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
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
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well

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