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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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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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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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