It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything we ought to look at the end.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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The 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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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