Lies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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The sign brings customers.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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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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What God does, He does well.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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