A hare is not caught with a drum.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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I bend but do not break.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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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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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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