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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELies and literature have always been friends.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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We are never content with our lot.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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