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A 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.

Jean de La Fontaine

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One returns to the place one came from.
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Came Place Return
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Anand Thakur
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Ourselves Path
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
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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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Author Goodness Spoil
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Happiness Poor
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Imitation Myself Opinion
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Cat Gratitude Win
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Himself Listening Live
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Art Bold Courage Live Trust
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe

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