We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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I bend but do not break.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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