We risk all in being too greedy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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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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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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