Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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What God does, He does well.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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