Cats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything one must consider the end.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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I bend but do not break.
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I bend and do not break.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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