Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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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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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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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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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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I bend and do not break.
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