Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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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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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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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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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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