Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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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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In this world we must help one another.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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