The argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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The worst time is always the present.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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What God does, He does well.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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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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