We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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What God does, He does well.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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