The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOften we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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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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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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