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He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest.

Colubram sustulit
Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.

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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Endure this evil lest a worse come upon you.

By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

O that such beauty should be so devoid of understanding!

Fables, I, 7, 2. Reported in Hoyt's (1922)

A partnership with men in power is never safe.

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