Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBlind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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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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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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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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