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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Cure Fear Mistake Repeat Shame
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Impossible Man Soul Vanish
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Race Start Time Win
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Cry Herself Love Tears Victory Virtue
Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Day Future Present Time
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Dangerous One Liner People
One returns to the place one came from.
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Came Place Return
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Avoid Destiny Fate Life Road

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