He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe 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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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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The sign brings customers.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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I bend and do not break.
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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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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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