The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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In this world we must help one another.
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