A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAnyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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