I bend and do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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What God does, He does well.
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