What God does, He does well.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Still people are dangerous.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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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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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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The sign brings customers.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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