Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to suffer than to die.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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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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I bend but do not break.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Every 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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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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The worst time is always the present.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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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