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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
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
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
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well

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