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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Jean de La Fontaine

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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Death Learning Open Return Trait Window
One returns to the place one came from.
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Came Place Return
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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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
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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Act Certain Finding Wolf
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Impossible Man Soul Vanish
Still people are dangerous.
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Dangerous One Liner People
We ought to consider the end in everything.
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End Future One Liner
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Distance Worth
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
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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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman
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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Art Bold Courage Live Trust
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Dangerous God Promise Remember
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Dangerous Meet Yourself
We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil One Liner

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