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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring
Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Force Patience Rage Worth
We heed no instincts but our own.
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Intuition Ourselves Spirituality Wisdom
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Best Himself Injury Man
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Dangerous People Silence
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Brain Fashion Power Stupidity World
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
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
In everything we ought to look at the end.
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End Future Work
We ought to consider the end in everything.
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End Future One Liner
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Ignorance Learning Talk Value
No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Flower Glory Hard Time Inspirational Path
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Distance Worth
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
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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