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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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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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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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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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