From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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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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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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