Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEStill people are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBe advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo path of flowers leads to glory.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe believe no evil till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend but do not break.
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