Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe strongest passion is fear.
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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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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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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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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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The worst time is always the present.
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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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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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