Still people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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I bend and do not break.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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