Sensible people find nothing useless.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe risk all in being too greedy.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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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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By the work one knows the workman.
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In short, luck’s always to blame.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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I bend and do not break.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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