All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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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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