Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINECats know not how to pardon.
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I bend but do not break.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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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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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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