The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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What God does, He does well.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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