To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELearn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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What God does, He does well.
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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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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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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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