It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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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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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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