Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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