In everything we ought to look at the end.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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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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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.
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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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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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