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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Jean de La Fontaine

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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Greedy One Liner Risk
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Avoid Destiny Ourselves Path
Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Friendship Life Shadow Sun
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Age Exercise Man Reason
Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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One Liner Secret Weight
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Satisfaction Unfortunate
It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Point Run Time
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death Himself Man Ready Wisdom
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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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Act Certain Finding Wolf
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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Future Possession Value Worth
We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Perception See
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Devil Pay Tribute
To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Fear Haunt Hell Pleasure

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