Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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