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We are never content with our lot.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil Instinct Ourselves
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Deep Discover Himself Human Spirituality Universe
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Dangerous God Promise Remember
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
The strongest passion is fear.
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Fear One Liner Passion Strong
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Blind Fortune Pursue Rash
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Decieve Increase Pleasure
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Art Bold Courage Live Trust
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Appearance Judgement Live
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Deliver Expectation Loud Mountain Noise
In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Easy Trouble
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Best Himself Injury Man
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Face Repair Ruin
Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Man Secret Woman

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