Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe strongest passion is fear.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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You’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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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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It 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.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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