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
- We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
- There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
- Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
- A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
- In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
- We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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