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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Greatness Small Suffering
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Butcher Oneself Stick Trade
The strongest passion is fear.
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Fear One Liner Passion Strong
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring
We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Believe Evil One Liner
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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Fools Fortune Luxury Reading Surround
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Animal Care Cow Man Nature Work
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Flower Glory Leadership Road
An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Author Goodness Spoil
I bend but do not break.
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Break Flexible Myself
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Animal Kill Oneself Skin
A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Different Grand Stage Universe
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Face Repair Ruin
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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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Desire Easy Fear
The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Satisfaction Unfortunate
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Blind Fortune Pursue Rash
Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Habit Slave
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Anand Thakur
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Himself Inferior
Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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Man Secret Woman
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Dangerous God Promise Remember
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Grace Talent
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Best Short Work
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery

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