Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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What God does, He does well.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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We are never content with our lot.
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