We heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThere is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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