Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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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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