The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe worst time is always the present.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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I bend but do not break.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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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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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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