O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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I bend and do not break.
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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 hungry stomach cannot hear.
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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 love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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