Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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