Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Anand Thakur
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMen of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEI bend, but I do not break.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERather suffer than die is man’s motto.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe become innocent when we are unfortunate.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBy the work one knows the workman.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHabit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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