Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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Anand Thakur
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINERather suffer than die is man’s motto.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEImitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn this world we must help one another.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEHelp yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEGentleness succeeds better than violence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEvery flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDiversity, that is my motto.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELearn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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