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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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The sign brings customers.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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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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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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