In everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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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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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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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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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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