A hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEExample is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAs sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOften we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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