The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Still people are dangerous.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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