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We risk all in being too greedy.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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Condition Present Request Satisfaction Worst
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Cry Herself Love Tears Victory Virtue
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Fools Myself Opinion Slave
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Dangerous Fast Stick
Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Accomplishment Patience Perseverance Strength
The sign brings customers.
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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
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Blind Fortune Pursue Rash
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil One Liner
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Friendship Life Shadow Sun
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Ignorance Learning Talk Value
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Dangerous People Silence

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