Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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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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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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