Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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The worst time is always the present.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Nothing 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.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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