Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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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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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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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.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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