Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELearn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESadness flies away on the wings of time.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDeath never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENeither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIf every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe risk all in being too greedy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knows the universe and does not know himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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