Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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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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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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