As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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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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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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