Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt 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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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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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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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