"Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first."

Proverb, French on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Proverb, French on Destiny
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"He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned."

Proverb, French on Destiny
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"Who loves well, chastises well."

Proverb, French on Discipline
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"Divorce is the sacrament of adultery."

Proverb, French on Divorce
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"A surgeon should be young a physician old."

Proverb, French on Doctors
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"One may go a long way after one is tired."

Proverb, French on Effort
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"Nothing is more elegant than ready money!"

Proverb, French on Elegance
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"I know by my own pot how the others boil."

Proverb, French on Experience
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"Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny."

Proverb, French on Fame
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"Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)"

Proverb, French on Farewells
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"Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical."

Proverb, French on Fashion
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"A father is a banker provided by nature."

Proverb, French on Fathers
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"People always make the wolf more formidable than he is."

Proverb, French on Fear
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"A good meal ought to begin with hunger."

Proverb, French on Food and Eating
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"Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have."

Proverb, French on Food and Eating
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"Against change of fortune set a brave heart."

Proverb, French on Fortune
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"Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair."

Proverb, French on Gambling
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"There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing."

Proverb, French on Gambling
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"He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering."

Proverb, French on Gifts
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"Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth."

Proverb, French on Glutton
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"No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere."

Proverb, French on Goals
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"In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?"

Proverb, French on Government
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"Without grace beauty is an unabated hook."

Proverb, French on Grace
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"Gratitude is the heart's memory."

Proverb, French on Gratitude
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"Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat."

Proverb, French on Honesty
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"He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot."

Proverb, French on Hope
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French on Hope
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"It's good to be clever, but not to show it."

Proverb, French on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Fear is a great inventor."

Proverb, French on Invention and Inventor
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"Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease."

Proverb, French on Laughter
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"A good lawyer is a bad neighbor."

Proverb, French on Law and Lawyers
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"When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow."

Proverb, French on Leaders and Leadership
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"Liberty has no crueler enemy than license."

Proverb, French on Liberty
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"Great talker, great liar."

Proverb, French on Lies and Lying
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"Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it."

Proverb, French on Life and Living
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"None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power."

Proverb, French on Arrogance
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"In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek."

Proverb, French on Love
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"There are more fools among buyers than among sellers."

Proverb, French on Market
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"Marriage is the sunset of love."

Proverb, French on Marriage
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