One often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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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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