Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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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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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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