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Jean de La Fontaine

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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Appearance Judgement Live
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Appearance Fake Skin Terror
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Choice Different Leadership Path Road
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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Greatness Happiness Ourselves Wealth
Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Animal Mouth Tail Woman
People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Dangerous Noise People
The worst time is always the present.
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Present Time Worst
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Oneself Return Sin
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Father Fools Satisfaction World
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring
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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Deliver Expectation Loud Mountain Noise
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
By the work one knows the workman.
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Fame Identity Oneself Work
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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Call Fools Friendship Name Rare
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Art Bold Courage Live Trust

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