A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Still people 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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I bend but do not break.
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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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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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