Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESensible people find nothing useless.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Still people are dangerous.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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In this world we must help one another.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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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 weighs more than a secret.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.
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