One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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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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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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