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Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

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Only cowards insult dying majesty.

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A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, "What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains."

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Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

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An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

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Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

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The memory of a good deed lives.

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Kindness is more persuasive than force.

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A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

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While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

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Most arguments are useless.

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Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

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Pride goes before destruction.

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Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

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A false tale often betrays itself.

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