Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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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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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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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