From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Anand Thakur
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hungry stomach cannot hear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAlas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEPeople must help one another; it is nature’s law.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWomen keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe believe easily what we fear of what we desire.
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 FONTAINETis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFriendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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