Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend and do not break.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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