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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.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Beggar Better Choice Emperor Live
A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Animal Capture Hare
In this world we must help one another.
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Help Oneself World
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Himself Inferior
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Age Exercise Man Reason
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Best Himself Injury Man
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Better Death Suffering
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Fools Lost Wisdom
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One Liner People Sensible

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