Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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