Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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What God does, He does well.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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