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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.

Jean de La Fontaine

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I bend but do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Decieve Increase Pleasure
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Believe Desire Easy Fear
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
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 believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil One Liner
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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