Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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I bend but do not break.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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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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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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