The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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I bend and do not break.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Still people are dangerous.
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