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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Myself Opinion Slave
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Happiness Poor
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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