Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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I bend but do not break.
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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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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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I bend and do not break.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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