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One often has need of one inferior to himself.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Still people are dangerous.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
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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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman
Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Better Depend King Powerful Prince
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Best Himself Injury Man
To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Fear Haunt Hell Pleasure
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
Diversity, that is my motto.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Deep Discover Himself Human Spirituality Universe
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Destiny Evil Goodness Right Wrong
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret

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