In everything we ought to look at the end.
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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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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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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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