The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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We are never content with our lot.
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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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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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I bend but do not break.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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