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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Jean de La Fontaine

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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Affair Spoil
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death Himself Man Ready Wisdom
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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Best Himself Injury Man
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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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Innocence Unfortunate
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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