Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFrom a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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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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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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