Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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