O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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