Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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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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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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In this world we must help one another.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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