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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Himself Listening Live
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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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Cure Fear Mistake Repeat Shame
We ought to consider the end in everything.
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End Future One Liner
I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Day Future Present Time
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Desire Easy Fear
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One Liner People Sensible
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Devil Pay Tribute
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Age Exercise Man Reason
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Anand Thakur
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Anand Thakur
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Rage Strength Time
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World

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