Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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