A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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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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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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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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