Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIs not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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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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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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What God does, He does well.
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