Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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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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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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