Lies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMen of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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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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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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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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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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By the work one knows the workman.
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