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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Advice Can Profit Wisdom
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Always Fool Heart Intellect
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
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Contain Jealousy Love More Self
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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Contagious Evil Example Great Good Like Nothing Product
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue

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