Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBlind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
More Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.
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The sign brings customers.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
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What God does, He does well.
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Nothing weighs more than a secret.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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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.
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All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
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O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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