A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.

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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

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