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.
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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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