A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought to consider the end in everything.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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 become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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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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