In everything one must consider the end.
En toute chose il faut considérer la fin.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
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