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In short, luck’s always to blame.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Deal Fox Himself Thinking Trick
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
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
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
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Ourselves Path
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
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Animal Care Cow Man Nature Work
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Cure Fear Mistake Repeat Shame
I bend but do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Easy Trouble
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent

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