To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt 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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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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What God does, He does well.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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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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