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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Art Bold Courage Live Trust
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
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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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Fire Ice Lying Man Truth
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Fools Lost Wisdom
O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Dominate Ourselves Prudence
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Day Future Present Time
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Brain Fashion Power Stupidity World
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Distance Worth
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Impossible Man Soul Vanish
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret

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