Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Everyone 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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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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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