Cats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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I bend and do not break.
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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.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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