Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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Diversity, that is my motto.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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