Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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What God does, He does well.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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