What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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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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