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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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Still people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Dangerous One Liner People
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Cost Flattery Learning Listening Live
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road
Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil Instinct Ourselves
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Blow Change Himself Way
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Better Depend King Powerful Prince
The worst time is always the present.
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Present Time Worst
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
Better to suffer than to die.
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Better Death Suffering
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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Deliver Expectation Loud Mountain Noise
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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Anand Thakur
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Impossible Man Soul Vanish
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Imitation Myself Opinion
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Anand Thakur
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Ignorance Learning Talk Value
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Myself Opinion Slave
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Friendship Life Shadow Sun
We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Innocence Unfortunate
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Cry Herself Love Tears Victory Virtue
It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Point Run Time

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