Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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I bend but do not break.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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