Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAs sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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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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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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What God does, He does well.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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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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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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The sign brings customers.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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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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