Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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