By the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Still people are dangerous.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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What God does, He does well.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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