Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to suffer than to die.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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What God does, He does well.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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