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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Jean de La Fontaine

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A hare is not caught with a drum.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Animal Capture Hare
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Himself Known Universe
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Himself Inferior
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death Himself Man Ready Wisdom
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Animal Mouth Tail Woman
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Decieve Increase Pleasure
I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner
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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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Conquer Heart Oneself Victory
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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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade

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