It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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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 argument of the strongest is always the best.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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