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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Blind Fortune Pursue Rash
In everything one must consider the end.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Anand Thakur
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Anand Thakur
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Anand Thakur
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Dangerous People Silence
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil One Liner
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Deal Fox Himself Thinking Trick
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One Liner People Sensible
I bend, but I do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself

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