It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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In this world we must help one another.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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The sign brings customers.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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