We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDiversity, that is my motto.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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The worst time is always the present.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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