From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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But the shortest works are always the best.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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