Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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The worst time is always the present.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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