In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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