Jean De La Fontaine Quotes
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~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
~ Jean de la Fontaine Quote
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Help yourself and heaven will help you.
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One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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The strongest passion is fear.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "What a dust I raise."
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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The worst time is always the present.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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All roads lead to Rome; but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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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.
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In short, Luck's always to blame.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
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People must help one another; it is nature's law.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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People who make no noise are dangerous.
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In this world we must help one another.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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There is nothing useless to men of sense.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We are never content with our lot.
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From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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