Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople who make no noise are dangerous.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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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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