We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESilent people are dangerous; others are not so.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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But the shortest works are always the best.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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The sign brings customers.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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