Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThere is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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