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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.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Believe Desire Easy Fear
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Animal Mouth Tail Woman
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Desire Easy Fear
I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Appearance Fake Skin Terror
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Impossible Man Soul Vanish
Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Death Man Motto Suffering
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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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Himself Known Universe
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Himself Listening Live
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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Future Possession Value Worth
Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
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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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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