An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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