A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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