There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery 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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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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In this world we must help one another.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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