We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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The sign brings customers.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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