As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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