Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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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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