The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEven if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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I bend but do not break.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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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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The sign brings customers.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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