If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The sign brings customers.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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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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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.
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