Better to suffer than to die.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELearn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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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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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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The sign brings customers.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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