The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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I bend and do not break.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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