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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Jean de La Fontaine

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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Still people are dangerous.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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