Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Better to suffer than to die.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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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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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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I bend but do not break.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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The sign brings customers.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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