In short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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I bend and do not break.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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