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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
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
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Ourselves Outward Peace Seek Source
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety 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
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
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Better Constantly Good Man Observation Proof Truly
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

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