Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEStill people are dangerous.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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