One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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I bend and do not break.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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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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In everything one must consider the end.
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