No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend, but I do not break.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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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.
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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What God does, He does well.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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The sign brings customers.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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