Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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In this world we must help one another.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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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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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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I bend but do not break.
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Still people are dangerous.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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