The reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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We are never content with our lot.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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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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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Still people are dangerous.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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I bend and do not break.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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