I bend, but I do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEExample is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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What God does, He does well.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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In this world we must help one another.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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