Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Diversity, that is my motto.
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Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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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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The strongest passion is fear.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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