If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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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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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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I bend and do not break.
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