Nothing weighs more than a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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