We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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The worst time is always the present.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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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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What God does, He does well.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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I bend and do not break.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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