Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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I bend and do not break.
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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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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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