Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPatience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEven if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter a living beggar than a buried emperor.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHe is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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 FONTAINEBy the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEExample is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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