Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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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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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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A 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.
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We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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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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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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