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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

Jean de La Fontaine

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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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Deliver Expectation Loud Mountain Noise
Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Alone Appearance Judgement Live
Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Force Patience Rage Worth
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
By the work one knows the workman.
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Fame Identity Oneself Work
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Friendship Literature Lying
Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Dangerous Enemy Ignorance Wisdom Worth
One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Himself Inferior
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Flower Glory Leadership Road
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Dangerous Meet Yourself

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