Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
One factor that makes it rare for us to find so few people who can carry on an agreeable and rational conversation is that there are practically no people who do not think first of all about what they want to say, rather than responding precisely to what others are saying to them. The politest people are content merely to show an attentive mien, while all the time we see that their eyes and their minds are wandering, and that they are in a rush to return to what they want to say. They should consider that this insistent search for self-satisfaction is a poor way of giving pleasure, and that it is a greater accomplishment to listen well and reply justly than to speak well and often without responding to what others are saying to us.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
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