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 fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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