Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEExample is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves.
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We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.
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Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
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A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
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Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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The argument of the strongest is always the best.
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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The sign brings customers.
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