Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOften we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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