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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Animal Care Cow Man Nature Work
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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Age Exercise Man Reason
In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Blame One Liner
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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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Distance Worth
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Grace Talent
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
The strongest passion is fear.
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Fear One Liner Passion Strong
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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