A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIs not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEExample is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESilent people are dangerous; others are not so.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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