Sensible people find nothing useless.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOften we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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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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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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