If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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