We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBlind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend and do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIs not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe argument of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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