Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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I bend but do not break.
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