Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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We are never content with our lot.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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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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