All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing 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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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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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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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