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
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
- What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
- The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
- We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
- The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
- Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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