In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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I bend and do not break.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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