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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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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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The sign brings customers.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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