The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe worst time is always the present.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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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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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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