Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Anand Thakur
Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEStill people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything one must consider the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe strongest passion is fear.
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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHabit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo favor can win gratitude from a cat.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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