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We are never content with our lot.

Jean de La Fontaine

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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