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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Desire Praise Refusal Twice
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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Anything Beyond Dismiss Iiusally Mediocre Own Reach Understanding
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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Fool Forever Head Heart Make
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
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
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
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Action Best Feel Move Produce Shame Should World

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