Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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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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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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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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I bend, but I do not break.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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I bend but do not break.
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We are never content with our lot.
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