The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThere is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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We are never content with our lot.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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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I bend, but I do not break.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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