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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.

Jean de La Fontaine

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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Flower Glory Leadership Road
We ought to consider the end in everything.
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End Future One Liner
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Cost Flattery Learning Listening Live
Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil Instinct Ourselves
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Himself Known Universe
But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Brain Fashion Power Stupidity World
Our 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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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Force Patience Rage Worth
I bend, but I do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Choice Different Leadership Path Road
Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Difficult Known Myself Regard Secret Woman
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Dangerous God Promise Remember
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Animal Mouth Tail Woman
To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Fear Haunt Hell Pleasure
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Blow Change Himself Way
What God does, He does well.
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God Himself Well
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Himself Listening Live
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Anand Thakur
Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Alone Appearance Judgement Live
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road

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