Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything we ought to look at the end.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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The worst time is always the present.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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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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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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