No path of flowers leads to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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I bend and do not break.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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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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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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