It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend and do not break.
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The sign brings customers.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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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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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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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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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
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