Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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