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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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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
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
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Offensive Others Own Patience People Vanity
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
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Better Faithful Force Love Man Must Unfaithfulness
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
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
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Agreeable Conversation Each Few Intend Other People Reason Say Think

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