We are never content with our lot.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAll roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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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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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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In everything one must consider the end.
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Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
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