"Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood."
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"You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return."
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"Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone."
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"He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not."
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"We heed no instincts but our own."
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"We ought to consider the end in everything."
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"But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity). [Fr., Mais un pripon d'enfant (cet age est sans pitie)."
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"Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain."
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"I bend but do not break."
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"Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres.]"
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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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"Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]"
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"Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate"
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"Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe."
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