Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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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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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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