The reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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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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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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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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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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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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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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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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I bend but do not break.
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