Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBlind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Everyone 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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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The sign brings customers.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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