I bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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 are never content with our lot.
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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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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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