We heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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