Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBe advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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