Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone 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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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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