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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.

Jean de La Fontaine

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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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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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Dangerous God Promise Remember
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Destiny Evil Goodness Right Wrong
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Best Reason Strong
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Animal Mouth Tail Woman
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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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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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare

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