In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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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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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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