I bend, but I do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt 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.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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