Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
- One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
- We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
- Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
- On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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