We are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBeware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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