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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.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Better to suffer than to die.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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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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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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