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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
[ Attitude ]
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
[ Appearance ]
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By the work one knows the workmen.
[ Quality ]
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
[ Flattery ]
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
[ Journalism and Journalists ]
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
[ Belief ]
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
[ Faults ]
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
[ Self-knowledge ]
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
[ Self-reliance ]
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In short, luck's always to blame.
[ Luck ]
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
[ Deception ]
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Luck's always to blame.
[ Luck ]
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
[ Soul ]
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
[ Greatness ]
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
[ Discretion ]
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
[ Danger ]
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
[ Secrets ]
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One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
[ Inferiority ]
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One returns to the place one came from.
[ Home ]
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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
[ Patience ]
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
[ Suffering ]
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Still people are dangerous.
[ Behavior ]
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
[ Argument ]
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
[ Detail ]
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
[ Achievement ]
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