It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend, but I do not break.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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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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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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