O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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