Quotes by Franois De La Rochefoucauld
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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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Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation
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The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Flattery is false coin that is only current thanks to our vanity.
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Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.
