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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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All Passion Commit Fault Love Make One Ridiculous
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Flatter Halm never Ourselves
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
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
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without

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