The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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