There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur 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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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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We are never content with our lot.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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I bend and do not break.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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