Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Still people are dangerous.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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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.
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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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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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