Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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