In everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAnyone 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.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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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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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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