Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
- Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
- Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- Only the contemptible fear contempt.
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
- We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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