O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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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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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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