The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDeath never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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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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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The sign brings customers.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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In this world we must help one another.
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