Still people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’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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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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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 good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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