The strongest passion is fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut the shortest works are always the best.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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I bend but do not break.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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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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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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