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One returns to the place one came from.
Home
Jean De La Fontaine

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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Patience
Jean De La Fontaine

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Suffering
Jean De La Fontaine

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Argument
Jean De La Fontaine

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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Detail
Jean De La Fontaine

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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Achievement
Jean De La Fontaine

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To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
Teachers and Teaching
Fr?ric-C?r La Harpe

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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Slavery
Thomas La Mance

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
Flirting
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Work
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Decency
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Judgment and Judges
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Fortune and humor govern the world.
Humor
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Funerals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Grace
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
Respectability
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Secrets
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
Humility
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrisy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Speakers and Speaking
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Jealousy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun