What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone 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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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I bend and do not break.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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