Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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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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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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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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