I bend and do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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