As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEToo many expedients may spoil an affair.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The strongest passion is fear.
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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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But the shortest works are always the best.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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We believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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I bend and do not break.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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The reason of the strongest is always the best.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Still people are dangerous.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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