We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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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 twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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The worst time is always the present.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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