By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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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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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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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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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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