O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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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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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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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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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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