By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEReligious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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In this world we must help one another.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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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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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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