The strongest passion is fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople who make no noise are dangerous.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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I bend and do not break.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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The sign brings customers.
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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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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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