It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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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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I bend, but I do not break.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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