Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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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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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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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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