A bluejay in peacock feathers.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWomen keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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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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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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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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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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