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.
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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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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