Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. — Quoted

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“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld · Hope

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

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