We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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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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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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The worst time is always the present.
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