We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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