Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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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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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The worst time is always the present.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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