In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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I bend and do not break.
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Still people are dangerous.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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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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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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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