We risk all in being too greedy.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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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 ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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By the work one knows the workman.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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What God does, He does well.
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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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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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