He knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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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 but do not break.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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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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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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