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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One Liner People Sensible
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Cure Fear Mistake Repeat Shame
The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Conquer Heart Oneself Victory
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Satisfaction Unfortunate
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death Himself Man Ready Wisdom
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Cry Herself Love Tears Victory Virtue
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Beggar Better Choice Emperor Live
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
In this world we must help one another.
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Help Oneself World
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Anand Thakur
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Art Bold Courage Live Trust
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Accomplishment Patience Perseverance Strength
In everything one must consider the end.
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Anand Thakur
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Fire Ice Lying Man Truth
Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Death Man Motto Suffering
I bend, but I do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Anand Thakur
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Decieve Increase Pleasure
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Better to suffer than to die.
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Better Death Suffering
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Choice Different Leadership Path Road
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Ignorance Learning Talk Value

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