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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
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
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
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
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Affection Effect Hatred Judge Love Most Resemble
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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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Better Disguised Often Reality Vice Virtue
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Calculation More Often Treacherous Weakness
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 often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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Always Orator Passion Persuade
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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Company Fool Greatly Loss Man Witty

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