How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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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In this world we must help one another.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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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 mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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The sign brings customers.
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