The reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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What God does, He does well.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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I bend and do not break.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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