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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Devil Harvest Religious
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Happiness Poor
The strongest passion is fear.
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Fear One Liner Passion Strong
O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Hold Love Prudent
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
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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Bringing Goodness Misfortune
We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Fools Pleasure
Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Fools Lost Wisdom
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Anand Thakur
We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Innocence Unfortunate
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner

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