Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend but do not break.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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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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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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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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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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Still people are dangerous.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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