A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe become innocent when we are unfortunate.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Still people are dangerous.
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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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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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