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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

Jean de La Fontaine

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By the work one knows the workman.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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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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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.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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