We ought to consider the end in everything.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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I bend and do not break.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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 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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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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