The worst time is always the present.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA 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.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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We ought to consider the end in everything.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Better to suffer than to die.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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