Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA 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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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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