One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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In this world we must help one another.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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