The strongest passion is fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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I bend but do not break.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Still people are dangerous.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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What God does, He does well.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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