Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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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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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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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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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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In this world we must help one another.
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