Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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We are never content with our lot.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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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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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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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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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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