FONTAINE

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

By the work one knows the workman. [The Hornets and the Bees, Fable 21]

In everything one must consider end. [The Fox and the Gnat, Fable 5]

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [The Cock and the Fox, Book ii, Fable 15]

The sign brings customers. [The Fortune-Tellers, Fable 15]