If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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