Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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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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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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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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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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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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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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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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