In short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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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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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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