It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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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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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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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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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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