A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.
AESOPMen often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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Once a wolf, always a wolf.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
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Those who suffer most cry out the least.
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It is possible to have too much of a good thing.
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To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
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Facts speak plainer than words.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
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