To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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I bend but do not break.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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