Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe strongest passion is fear.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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 argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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