We heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAlas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEExample is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe risk all in being too greedy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe sign brings customers.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe worst time is always the present.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWhat God does, He does well.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEStill people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINECats know not how to pardon.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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