Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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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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I bend but do not break.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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I bend and do not break.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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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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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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