The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINECats know not how to pardon.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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The worst time is always the present.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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The sign brings customers.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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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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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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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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