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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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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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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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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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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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