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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small

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