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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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