Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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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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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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