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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Fire Ice Lying Man Truth
Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
I bend but do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Fools Pleasure
Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Accomplishment Patience Perseverance Strength
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Grace Talent
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Affair Spoil
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Equality Ourselves
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
Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil Instinct Ourselves
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Destiny Evil Goodness Right Wrong
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Dangerous People Silence
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Himself Person Road
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
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

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