Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to suffer than to die.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEGentleness succeeds better than violence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHow wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWomen keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA 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.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIs not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHabit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAlas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe reason of the strongest is always the best.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBe advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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