Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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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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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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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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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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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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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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