Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEThe pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
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I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
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Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
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The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
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I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.
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Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?
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Evil tongues never want a whet.
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Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.
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Plain as a pike-staff.
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On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
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It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
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Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
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Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
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The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
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