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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought to consider the end in everything.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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What God does, He does well.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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