Better to suffer than to die.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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