Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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The worst time is always the present.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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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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