How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENo path of flowers leads to glory.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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I bend and do not break.
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Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
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The sign brings customers.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Cats know not how to pardon.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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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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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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