Cats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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I bend but do not break.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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