Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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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I bend, but I do not break.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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