Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAlas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOur condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINECats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEGentleness succeeds better than violence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend, but I do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMen of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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