We risk all in being too greedy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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We are never content with our lot.
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