Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe are never content with our lot.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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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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The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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In this world we must help one another.
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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