We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hare is not caught with a drum.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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