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/ page 286 of 1205 /A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
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Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty....
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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
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To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.
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