In everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs more than a secret.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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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 weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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