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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jean de La Fontaine

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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Best Reason Strong
We heed no instincts but our own.
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Intuition Ourselves Spirituality Wisdom
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death Himself Man Ready Wisdom
Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Man Secret Woman
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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Death Learning Open Return Trait Window
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave
People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Dangerous Noise People
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
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
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Animal Care Cow Man Nature Work
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Bringing Goodness Misfortune
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
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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