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• The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 298...
• What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
• Most people judge men only by success or by fortune. (Maxim 212)
• Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -- Francious de la Rochefoucauld
• Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 212...
• Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition.
• You will be where you most desire to be in a short while.
• We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 559
• We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. (Maxim 25)