Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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