The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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The sign brings customers.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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