Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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In this world we must help one another.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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