The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHabit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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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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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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