Lies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Still people are dangerous.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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