In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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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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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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