Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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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 impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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The worst time is always the present.
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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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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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