Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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