Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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I bend but do not break.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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What God does, He does well.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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