Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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I bend but do not break.
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