By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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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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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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