Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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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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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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