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 FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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In this world we must help one another.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Still people are dangerous.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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