But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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