Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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In this world we must help one another.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Still people are dangerous.
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We are never content with our lot.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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