We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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What God does, He does well.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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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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