I bend, but I do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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