Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAnyone 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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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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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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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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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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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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The sign brings customers.
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