It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to suffer than to die.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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