The strongest passion is fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
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The sign brings customers.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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Better to suffer than to die.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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 blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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