Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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