Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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