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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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In this world we must help one another.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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