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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
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Acquire All Bless Friend Great Least Take True
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
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Ashamed Deed Frequent Good Motive People Produce
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Behaviour Born Complete Indifference Perfect
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Always Heart Mind
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Creator Design Fewer Great Passion Soul Virtue
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

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