Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend but do not break.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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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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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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Still people are dangerous.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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