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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything one must consider the end.
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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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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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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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I bend but do not break.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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