But the shortest works are always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFrom a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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The sign brings customers.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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