Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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