Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEA cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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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It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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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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Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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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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