A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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The worst time is always the present.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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