The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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In this world we must help one another.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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One returns to the place one came from.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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