Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone 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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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