Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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In this world we must help one another.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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The sign brings customers.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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The worst time is always the present.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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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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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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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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I bend but do not break.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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