No path of flowers leads to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEGentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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