Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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