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We heed no instincts but our own.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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I bend but do not break.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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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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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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