A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Anand Thakur
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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The sign brings customers.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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