The strongest passion is fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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What God does, He does well.
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In this world we must help one another.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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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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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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The sign brings customers.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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