Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn this world we must help one another.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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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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