Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.
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