"Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue."
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"Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing."
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"Half of today is better than all of tomorrow."
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"What God does, He does well."
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"He knows the universe and does not know himself."
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"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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"Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent."
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"Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them."
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"By the work one knows the workman."
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"The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it."
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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
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"The finest victory is to conquer one's own heart."
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"Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast."
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"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."
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"I bend, but I do not break."
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"Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood."
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"In every trouble the little ones duck more easily."
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"Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion."
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"If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks."
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"We become innocent when we are unfortunate."
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