One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEStill people are dangerous.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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The sign brings customers.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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