Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople who make no noise are dangerous.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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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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