Nothing weighs more than a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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We are never content with our lot.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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