Better to suffer than to die.
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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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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What God does, He does well.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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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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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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