There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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I bend and do not break.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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