Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHalf of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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