The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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