Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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What God does, He does well.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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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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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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