I bend and do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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