Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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In this world we must help one another.
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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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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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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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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Still people are dangerous.
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