Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn this world we must help one another.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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