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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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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
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
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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Certain Depend Distinguish Elevation Fortune Kind Seem Sestine
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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Bear Enough Misfortune Other Strong
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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All Alone Family Great Wise Wish
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women

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