One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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I bend and do not break.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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What God does, He does well.
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