Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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One 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.
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