It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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The sign brings customers.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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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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