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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.

Jean de La Fontaine

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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Satisfaction Unfortunate
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
Men 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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Age Exercise Man Reason
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Deep Discover Himself Human Spirituality Universe
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Avoid Destiny Fate Life Road
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Friendship Life Shadow Sun
We ought to consider the end in everything.
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End Future One Liner
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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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Dangerous People Silence
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Future Possession Value Worth
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman

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