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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

Jean de La Fontaine

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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Innocence Unfortunate
Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Accomplishment Patience Perseverance Strength
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Greatness Happiness Ourselves Wealth
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Appearance Fake Skin Terror
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Cat Gratitude Win
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Himself Known Universe
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Happiness Poor

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