“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.