Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESilent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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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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I bend and do not break.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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The sign brings customers.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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