A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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What God does, He does well.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Still people are dangerous.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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