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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.

Jean de La Fontaine

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I bend and do not break.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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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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