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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Chance favors the prepared mind. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard. ↗

— George Washington

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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ↗

— Horace

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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites. ↗

— Hans Kung

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You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. ↗

— Steven Seagal

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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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Fortune favors the brave. ↗

— Terence

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