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We risk all in being too greedy.

Jean de La Fontaine

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The sign brings customers.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Act Certain Finding Wolf
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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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
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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Death Learning Open Return Trait Window
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Grace Talent
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Anand Thakur
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
The worst time is always the present.
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Present Time Worst
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Beggar Better Choice Emperor Live
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Dangerous Enemy Friendship Preferance
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Fire Ice Lying Man Truth

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