Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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The sign brings customers.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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