Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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