By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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