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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Equality Ourselves
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Choice Different Leadership Path Road
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
The strongest passion is fear.
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Fear One Liner Passion Strong
Cats know not how to pardon.
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Cat Forgiveness Known One Liner
By the work one knows the workman.
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Fame Identity Oneself Work
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Race Start Time Win
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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I bend but do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
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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Bringing Goodness Misfortune
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Affair Spoil
One returns to the place one came from.
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Came Place Return
Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Devil Harvest Religious
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Dangerous Noise People
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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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
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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Art Bold Courage Live Trust
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Impossible Man Soul Vanish
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Myself Opinion Slave
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Fools Pleasure
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Dangerous Enemy Ignorance Wisdom Worth
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe

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