Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA hare is not caught with a drum.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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No path of flowers leads to glory.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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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 ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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