Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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What God does, He does well.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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I bend and do not break.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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