Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hare is not caught with a drum.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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