O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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Religious contention is the devil’s harvest.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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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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I bend, but I do not break.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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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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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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