The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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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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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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