To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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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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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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