Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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In this world we must help one another.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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