The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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Anand Thakur
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWomen keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe heed no instincts but our own.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend but do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESilent people are dangerous; others are not so.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe become innocent when we are unfortunate.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople who make no noise are dangerous.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELies and literature have always been friends.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe strongest passion is fear.
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 FONTAINEBut a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBetter to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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