What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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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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I bend but do not break.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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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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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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