It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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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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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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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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