One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEReligious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The worst time is always the present.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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