Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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In this world we must help one another.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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