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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Act Certain Finding Wolf
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Fools Pleasure
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Cure Fear Mistake Repeat Shame
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Believe Desire Easy Fear
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Anand Thakur
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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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
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.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Anand Thakur
One returns to the place one came from.
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Came Place Return
Better to suffer than to die.
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Better Death Suffering
In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Blame One Liner
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Choice Different Leadership Path Road
We ought to consider the end in everything.
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End Future One Liner
Diversity, that is my motto.
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Anand Thakur

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