Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWhat 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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I bend and do not break.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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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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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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