Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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